CVE-2012-2119
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jan 22, 2013
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Apr 4, 2012
Description
Buffer overflow in the macvtap device driver in the Linux kernel before 3.4.5, when running in certain configurations, allows privileged KVM guest users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long descriptor with a long vector length.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.5
- RHSA-2012:0743vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b92946e2919134ebe2a4083e4302236295ea2a73
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b92946e2919134ebe2a4083e4302236295ea2a73
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=814278
- [linux-netdev] 20120416 [PATCH 3/6] macvtap: zerocopy: validate vector length before pinning user pagesmailing-list
- USN-1529-1vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0925vendor-advisory
- https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4aae94d1c7b32316911c86176c0ed4f8ed62da73
- [oss-security] 20120419 Re: CVE request -- kernel: macvtap: zerocopy: vector length is not validated before pinning user pagesmailing-list
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